Just as well it went missing in the much smaller Indian Ocean then!

A surprising amount of that ocean was searched in some way or other in the year following MH370's disappearance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#/...), but pieces of plane are still pretty small in comparison.

And given what we do know (various wing bits have washed up on beaches), those wings broke apart on impact.

We are talking area, we didn’t consider depth. We should change the idiom to “searching 777 in pacific”